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Sweet Pea's injury upon arrival
Grade
Mare
1987?
Sweet Pea is a loving mare who came to us with a a terrible
wound! She seemed to have impaled herself along the rib cage,
then ripped a foot long, 3 inch deep gash down the length of
her rib cage trying to free herself. Without proper care, the
tissue quickly turned necrotic and the injury became life threatening.
SCR gives special thanks to our vet, Peter Conserva, for rushing
out to meet us in hopes that he could help Sweet Pea. He did
an emergency "field surgery" of sorts, ripping out
the "home made stich job", cleaning the injury, inserting
drains and restitching.
Sweet Pea, after months of post surgical care, healed up nicely,
with only a "smiley face" scar on her side. Turns
out she is a doll under saddle, though she can be a bit "girthy"
when putting the saddle on.
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